Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-10-08

And memories old are bringing,
hlke gentle shower, of boyhood's hour,
With subtle power, where're roam,
OF mother sweetlY singing
Singing, sweetly singing
The dear old songs of home
No time can blot this fragrant spot,
This chime of silver bells
IS But oft my heart with sudden start
The secret sur ly tells.
Then mid the glad bells ringing
With holy thoughts upspringing,
NOW faint, then clear. again hear
In accents dear, wherere [ roam,
My mother sweetly singing,
Singing, sweetly singing,
The dear old songs of home,
~ MULCHING STRAWBERRIES.
1t is said that the strawberry growers
of Kentucky have adopted a new mode
of protecting and mulching strawberries
that growers even in this section of
country might do well to pattern after.
Their practice is to sow rye early in the
Fall between the rows of plants; this
gets good start before the Winter and
serves the full purpose of Winter pro-
lection In the Spring, as the rye con-
hnues its development, it is either cut
down or pulled up and laid upon the
ground to serve as mulch. Without
trial it is difficult to Judge how efficient
rye would be as Winter protector to
straw berry plants, but it would seem as
though the rye cut in the manner in
dictated would serve an excellent pur-
pose as mulch and in assisting to re-
tain that moisture in the soil that is alb
solutely essential to the perfect and full
development of the fruit. At the same
time IS it not probable that such
course would be as economical and at
tended with aslittle trouble as any sys-
tenn of protection and mulching that
could be adopted?-C Correspondent Neav
England Farmer
SPREADING MANURE.
Many hours of valuable time are lost
by bad management handling manure
The average man will unload in a
small pile load of manure weigh
ing 23O0 to $500 pounds in ten minutes.
A man must be active to spread that
amount evenly and shake it to pieces
thoroughly in forty-six minutes. A
little practice will enable a man to un-
load and partly scatter the load in
fifteen minutes Preparatory to spread
ing with drag 1 distribute as follows:
Partially scatter on one side of the
wagon, making the manure cover a
space on the ground as wide as the
drag is, say four feet, drive the wagon
in straight line until unloaded, be-
gin with the next load where YOU
started with the first and throw the
manure Oft so that a space of about
four feet will remain uncovered,
After unloading say twenty loads in
this way and before the manure has
had time to become hard and dry,
cross these rows with the drag, making
the horse travel rapidly. A fast walk
does well, but a slow trot is better.
Very good work can be done in this
way. In one and two-third hours [
have spread twelve to fifteen loads,
unloaded as above directed. The most
of it was pulverized better and finer
than you would ordinarily do with a
pitchfork; some long manure needed
spreading with the fork afterwards.
The manure was dragged three times.
Notice the time saved. Placing the
time of team equal to that of man,
nearly six hours labor is saved by
spreading with drag. j. N. Muncey
in Country Gentleman. '5"
- CELLAR WINDOWS. ~..5%
The cellar window should be opened
at night as late as practicable, and
should be protected from thievish cats
and other prowling animals by strong
open wire screens. The cool air of the
night, which is drier than the air of
midday, will enter and purify the room.
The windows should be closed before
sunrise, if possible, and kept closed
and shaded all day. If the cellar is
ventilated in the daytime the warm air
PUSHES in and meets current of colder
air, and thus the moisture held in sus-
pension by the warm air is deposited on
the cellar walls and may often be seen
running in streams down the sides.
The cellar soon becomes damp and
mouldy. A number of cases of that
fungoid disease, diptheria, according to
a recent issue of the London Lancet,
have been traced to the presence of
common mould fungi, such as grows in.
damp cellars. It pays TO sit up late
and get up early to open and close the
cellar windows York Tribune.
WOMEN AS FLORISTS.
Some ladies in Southern Illinois are
engaged in raising bulbs for the market,
tuberoses and gladioli, and there is a
similar firm managed by lady in
South Carolina. The leading florist of
Cleveland is woman of culture and
refinement. who began without any
capital save brains and willing hands.
She is very successful in business, and
has the distinction of being one of the
most artistic designers in the trade.
Of course, every iower-loving woman
is not fitted for this work, but the fact
remains that it is an honorable and
fairly remunerative employment, and
may well take it's place among occupa-
tons for women.
A READY POULTICE.
Wounds made by rusty tools, nails,
or by the teeth of dogs and other ami
mails, are not only very painful, but
generally quite dangerous. To allay
the pain, extract the poison and hasten
the healing process, there's nothing we